I Love Reading to the Moon and Back challenge – Step by Step

Futuraskolan International Rådan’s I Love Reading to the Moon and Back challenge is well under way.

The students in grades 4, 5, 6B and 6R are reading like they’ve never read before and it’s AMAZING!

In the first 42 days of the challenge, the students have read an astounding 30 000 pages!

WOW!

Great work!

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(The library will need a ton of new books if the students keep reading at this pace!)

Sleight of Hand

As part of the I Love Reading to the Moon and Back challenge students need to read a book selected by one of their teachers or the librarian.

Grade 5 student, Arian, asked the librarian for a recommendation and, knowing the student’s interest in magic tricks, suggested the book Magic Tricks with Coins, Cards and Everyday Objects, by Jake Banfield.

Needless to say Arian was thrilled at the opportunity to read a book that in his words, “isn’t really a book.”

Last week Arian presented his review of Banfield’s book and performed a card trick for the librarian.

Arian definitely recommends this book. He reports that it was easy to learn the tricks because each trick was presented step-by-step and with clear explanations. He said that each trick has tips with it and they helped a lot.

One of the best things about Magic Tricks, Arian says, is that right at the beginning there is a legend that provides a ranking for each trick. For example, Arian examples, tricks are not only organized by card tricks, coin tricks, etc., they also have a ranking of easy to really difficult.

 

He said that this ranking, along with the clear, illustrated instructions makes this a great book for anyone who wants to learn some magic tricks.

When the I Love Reading to the Moon and Back challenge reaches the moon, there will be a huge, out-of-this-world celebration and Arian said he would be thrilled to take part and perform some magic tricks for his classmates.

Well done, Arian!

I Love Reading to the Moon and Back – Book Recommendation

Students participating in the I Love Reading to the Moon and Back challenge need recommend one of the books that they read.

Today Simon recommended I Varuhuset, by Ture Sventon. He said that, “You never know what is going to happen next.” Simon said that the ending was perfect for the story.

He also commented that he would remake the cover of the book because the current one doesn’t really do justice to the story. The story is way more exciting than the cover. He said he would add a security guard and a guard dog and remove the flowers.

Well done, Simon! Thank you recommending this book.

Here is summary of Tuve Sventon’s 18th novel:

Vad är det klokaste man kan göra när ens fina varuhus har drabbats av mystiska stölder? Och när en epokgörande vätska försvinner ur ett laboratorium? Naturligtvis att vända sig till privatdetektiv T Sventon, Stockholm.

P3X är den världsberömde professor Nickels senaste uppfinning. En vätska som tar bort all lukt, den värsta odör, likväl som den finaste vällukt. Med en flaska P3X i handen kan vilken bov som helst gå fri från vilka blodhundar som helst! Och det förklarar varför varuhushunden Ludvig inte kan få upp minsta spår efter den mystiske gråklädde man som nattetid hemsöker varuhuset City …

Men Ture Sventon lyckas givetvis med sedvanlig skicklighet att lösa denna även gåta. Den bov finns inte som lyckas överlista Sveriges – ja, kanske hela världens – skickligaste privatdetektiv.

Page by Page…

As part of the I love Reading to the Moon and Back challenge, Futuraskolan International Rådan students in grades 4, 5, 6B and 6R have read over 15 000 pages in less than one month!

Yesterday their Swedish teacher added a third book to the ladder to moon.

WOW!

Keep up the amazing work, Rådan students!

There’s a whole lot of Reading going on at Rådan!

Futuraskolan International Rådan has a unique reading challenge this year and everyone is really excited!

This year, the students in grades 4, 5 and 6 will participate in the I Love Reading to the Moon and Back challenge. The students will count each page they read as one kilometre. Their teachers will keep track of the weekly totals and after 5000 pages/kilometres, the Swedish teacher will add another book to the display. The books will form a stepladder the reaches all the up to the moon.

The students have to read a selection of 11 different genres. A different type of assignment is required for each book. The students can present their projects to any of the language teachers in the school. Students who take mother tongue lessons are encouraged to read a book in their native language and present to their home language teachers.

Students started this challenge on August 26. On September 10, the students earned their first book with a total of 5500 pages read in 16 days! WOW!!

Only six days later, on September 16, the students earned their second book with another 5000 pages. INCREDIBLE!

Well done, Rådan students!

 

 

Grade 4 Africa project

Learning about the world the children live in is of vital importance as this widens their perspectives within the boarders of a classroom.

This term the year fours had to do a research countries around the world that speak English. The children chose to work on Africa as a continent and selected a country to work on.

This project was completed in groups of five encouraging communication amongst peers, cooperation and thoughtfulness throughout the process. The children were encouraged to respectfully show their opinions and adapt to individual ideas and enquiries accordingly!

The results were very impressive with children singing songs, dancing and dressing up!